Are we on the brink of World War III?

[Reed Rothchild | 9,536]

The only thing standing in the way?  Putin's pride and ego.  And/or his continued living.

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Russian general takes his own life after being sacked by Vladimir Putin

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/14/russian-general-takes-life-sacked-vladimir-putin/

A Russian general who led a suppression of opposition activists shot himself in the head after being sacked by Vladimir Putin. Maj Gen Vladimir Makarov, 72, was found by his wife Valentina with gunshot wounds just weeks after he was fired by the Russian president in late January.

Yeah - definitely a "suicide"...

[Tanooki | 4,934]

Probably similar to Vince Foster, no powder burns, and gun thrown away from the body in a way no stiff would let fly from the recoil, but of course it's a suicide.

 

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Russian general 'performs striptease' in leaked video

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/28/russian-general-performs-striptease-leaked-video/

Lieutenant General Aleksandr Matovnikov, 57, can be seen dancing naked to music in a 44-second-long clip shared on the Telegram messaging app.

A message published alongside the video accuses him of being “an avid connoisseur of restaurants and ladies in Minsk”.

It adds that he “likes to shift the responsibility for making decisions to his subordinate officers. The general is more involved in creating similar video content for his girlfriends”.

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[Tulpa | 3,506]

Okay, as much as I don't like Russia right now, and Putin can go drown in a sea of dicks, this video was pretty cool.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/16/1163845903/video-drone-crash-russia-black-sea

[Reed Rothchild | 9,536]

33 minutes ago, Tulpa said:

Okay, as much as I don't like Russia right now, and Putin can go drown in a sea of dicks, this video was pretty cool.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/16/1163845903/video-drone-crash-russia-black-sea

Russia: "We didn't fly anywhere near it.  Also it was a Nazi drone.  Also, it wanted to be liberated by us because that drone was actually Russian back in 1845.  Also, none of this happened, it's just American propaganda because they want to invade Russia."

[Tanooki | 4,934]

I still border between wanting to laugh and get pissed/feel sick when that asshole (or his military/cabinet mouthpieces) claim that a Nazi is running Ukraine, it's a nazi regime, and they're there to remove nazis.  Dude is a fucking jew leading that country.

 

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A good read!

Xi Jinping’s plan to annex Russian territory is there for all to see

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/27/xi-jinpings-plan-annex-russian-territory-see/

The long-debated agreement on “Power of Siberia 2” (POS2) – a massive pipeline project to pump gas from Western Siberia to China via Mongolia – has become emblematic of the one-sided and slightly abusive relationship between China and Russia since the start of the Ukraine war. It is not good news for Moscow.

Beijing’s vision for the People’s Republic of China’s centenary in 2049 is the global triumph of a “fully developed, rich and powerful China”. This will not include sharing power with a chaotic Russian kleptocracy. The harder Xi focuses his efforts on realising the “China Dream”, the more implacably will his political and economic coercion be directed at Putin and Russia, and the weaker and more dependent both will become.

Xi’s revisionist goals entail wiping out the shame of historical territorial losses. He has imposed Communist authority on Hong Kong, seeks to do so in Taiwan, and undoubtedly has the same ambition for the 600,000 square kilometres – three times the area of Great Britain – which Tsarist Russia wrested from Opium War-weakened Manchu control in 1858-60 under the Treaties of Aigun and Peking. This area includes parts of Siberia, from which Putin’s much-vaunted pipeline deal would extract resources to sell to China.

Already, cross-border economic activity in Siberia by uncounted Chinese communities, including in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, tacitly revive historical Chinese claims to this resource-rich and highly strategic region. For decades, Chinese gangsters have been smuggling precious Siberian resources back to China through a porous frontier – often in collusion with Russian criminals. It’s a clear breach of Russian sovereignty.

In summary - the sooner Russia is able to remove, by any means necessary, Putin, the sooner they can start rebuilding and hopefully not becoming a vassal to China.

[Tulpa | 3,506]

Welp (Russian edition.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/finland-cleared-its-final-hurdle-to-joining-nato-bringing-a-geopolitical-nightmare-for-putin-close-to-reality/ar-AA19j6FG?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=2361c57eb49d44339bc38f9e688a5910&ei=30

Finland cleared its final hurdle to joining NATO, bringing a geopolitical nightmare for Putin close to reality

• The final holdout within NATO — Turkey — voted on Thursday to let Finland join the alliance.
• It was the last thing stopping NATO gaining a powerful new member that borders Russia.
• Putin said he attacked Ukraine to push NATO back — but Finland's accession achieves the opposite.

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Vladimir Putin is preparing to attack the UK

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/20/vladimir-putin-is-preparing-to-attack-the-uk/

For a long time it was only speculation. Now we know for certain: Russian spy ships are mapping wind farms and key cables off the British coast. There can be only one reason for this – to learn how to sabotage UK and European critical infrastructure in the event of a full-scale war with the West.

The sobering truth is that our potential adversaries, Russia in the West and China in the East, are gearing up for wider conflict. That does not mean that conflict will happen –preparation makes it less likely – but we must urgently recognise the extent of the threat to the current order. Our world is becoming markedly more dangerous. And Britain is not ready.

Russia is probing for European vulnerabilities. Apart from food, the daily critical requirements of modern society are energy and communications. The underwater arteries of modern civilisation are surprisingly few. For example, just three pipelines deliver 43 per cent of our baseline gas supply. Five interconnectors deliver electricity to and from the UK and Europe (and one more between Britain and Ireland). There are more communications cables, about 70 in all, but a relatively small number of deep-sea sabotage operations could bring our world to a halt without a shot being fired. We were assured that wind farms would bolster our energy security, but few considered their military exposure.

We have failed to see the trend, in Russia but also in China, because for too long our leaders naively assumed the rulers of those countries shared our own outlook and assumptions. They do not. As we have seen with Putin, war is not only thinkable but necessary. Using his spy ships in the North and Baltic seas, he is threatening to expand that conflict still further. We cannot afford to let him do so.

Bob Seely is MP for the Isle of Wight and sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee. He has a PhD in Russian military strategy

[FireHazard51 | 2,043]

On 3/31/2023 at 9:31 PM, Tulpa said:

Welp (Russian edition.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/finland-cleared-its-final-hurdle-to-joining-nato-bringing-a-geopolitical-nightmare-for-putin-close-to-reality/ar-AA19j6FG?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=2361c57eb49d44339bc38f9e688a5910&ei=30

Finland cleared its final hurdle to joining NATO, bringing a geopolitical nightmare for Putin close to reality

• The final holdout within NATO — Turkey — voted on Thursday to let Finland join the alliance.
• It was the last thing stopping NATO gaining a powerful new member that borders Russia.
• Putin said he attacked Ukraine to push NATO back — but Finland's accession achieves the opposite.

As a Finish-American (1/4th) I love that they joined NATO.  Finland had to fight the fuckers once before by themselves so I think they thought the Swiss stance would help avoid being dragged into a war.  That if Russia and NATO got in a war together, Russia wouldn't try and do second war with Finland and they could avoid war.  But now they can see the writing on the walls of, "We are just taking back what was 'always' a Russian territory."  They know that have a big motherfucking stick is what you need to keep Russia greedy little fingers off your country.

[Hammerfestus | 3,847]

6 minutes ago, FireHazard51 said:

As a Finish-American (1/4th) I love that they joined NATO.  Finland had to fight the fuckers once before by themselves so I think they thought the Swiss stance would help avoid being dragged into a war.  That if Russia and NATO got in a war together, Russia wouldn't try and do second war with Finland and they could avoid war.  But now they can see the writing on the walls of, "We are just taking back what was 'always' a Russian territory."  They know that have a big motherfucking stick is what you need to keep Russia greedy little fingers off your country.

The Finns I knew all despised Russians.  Still a lot of bad blood there.  Haista itse vittu vitun huora!  

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[Tabonga | 2,318]

But most of all I remember the Road Warrior!

https://news.yahoo.com/building-mad-max-vehicles-ukraines-110752537.html

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Fake or not, the Kremlin attack is extremely humiliating for Putin

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/03/kremlin-attack-humiliating-vladimir-putin-russia-fake/

 

[Tanooki | 4,934]

Can we get a copy paste of that since those trolls wants a subscription?

[Gloves | 11,783]

17 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

Can we get a copy paste of that since those trolls wants a subscription?

Doesn't seem to require one for me?

[Tanooki | 4,934]

Strange I'm blocked other than the picture and maybe a few lines under.

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23 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

Strange I'm blocked other than the picture and maybe a few lines under.

Try this -

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/fake-or-not-the-kremlin-attack-is-extremely-humiliating-for-putin/ar-AA1aGyhp

[Tulpa | 3,506]

Not blocked for me.

[Reed Rothchild | 9,536]

Russian State TV: "Everything is fine"

Wagner:

 

[MrWunderful | 2,927]

37 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Russian State TV: "Everything is fine"

Wagner:

 

That was fucking crazy man

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Guessing he and Putler are not on the best terms right now...

[Tanooki | 4,934]

I missed that clip from 4 weeks ago, lovely how the press won't cover that crap...turds.  But between there of him losing it over being poorly supplied to being used like target practice effectively to that new video still pissed, looking tired, and with the convenient blue+yellow mats seriously things internally are going far worse for Russia if this isn't some big psi-op mind screw game to mislead.

It makes you wonder how much longer Russia as it stands on so much stolen land there can continue to hold it, given the west keeps slipping the locals more hardware, medical supplies, and training.

I'm sure I must have in some page here linked this guy before, he's a Ukrainian commercial/cargo airline pilot who gets fed info on the fronts and follows all the local social media, odd accounts, and other whatever he's fed that's actually going on daily in the area sponged off supporters and haters or both sides to give a general fair view of things.  Looks like a good hard push is coming with that new hardware and supplies, perhaps going to break the back of the russians and head toward the sea cutting their holdings down the middle.  Alone they couldn't do it, but with all that nice NATO and US supplies, definitely.